Colorado State Open Thread: REMATCH!
As summer winds down, and our beloved peach season closes out--hopefully you have a case in the freezer--we know who's running in our state and local races next year. And it's not that we don't have...
View ArticleWashington State Open Thread - The HORSE Project
WASHINGTON STATE Open Thread This is a community series giving our Washington Kossacks a virtual meeting place to discuss issues of concern to our state and share what's happening in our lives. Share...
View ArticleMI O T:Enbridge Pumping Oil In a 60-y-o Pipeline Under the Straits of...
It’s been called the “Worst Possible Place” for a Great Lakes Oil Spill, yet Enbridge assures us it’s “safe” to keep pumping 23 million gallons of bitumen every day through a Eisenhower- era oil...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread - Fall Colors time
I know there are many of you who live in areas where the trees have riots of colors - reds, yellows, orange, green, brown, even purple. Well, Colorado does have a similar variety, but we tend to focus...
View ArticleWashington State Open Thread - Seattle's Wheel of Fortune - Going Green
WASHINGTON STATE Open Thread This is a community series giving our Washington Kossacks a virtual meeting place to discuss issues of concern to our state and share what's happening in our lives. Share...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: How to Start a Moral Fusion Movement Here? +...
I traveled to Asheville last weekend for the sake of hearing Rev. Barber and strategizing with some of the most active and progressive Kossacks on the site. As much as I looked forward to the meetup,...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: An Awesome Candidate Steps Up!
I'd like to introduce you to Colorado's soon-to-be newest member of our State House. She'll be (hopefully) representing the Fightin 59th House District, located down here in the lower left corner of...
View ArticleWashington State Open Thread - Bullitt Center Meets Living Building Challenge...
WASHINGTON STATE Open Thread This is a community series giving our Washington Kossacks a virtual meeting place to discuss issues of concern to our state and share what's happening in our lives. Share...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: Women Making the News
Just about all the major news to hit Michigan this week involves women in an important way.First, the news of the passing, at age 100, of Grace Lee Boggs. Second, also out of Detroit, an important new...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: Historical Notes on the Pikes Peak Region: 1850 -...
Hello and welcome to the Colorado Community Open Thread!The first few decades in which the Pikes Peak Region was "settled" was a rather interesting time! Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs were...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: Water Justice in Flint--But Who Pays?
The biggest state news IMO this week was the announcement that the good people of Flint, who have been subject to dangerously-contaminated water since the former EM decreed that the city should get off...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: Here Come Ballots, School Board Edition
Hello, and welcome to Colorado State Debate Hangover Thread! I was up until 1130 Facebooking when I needed to be up at 6. I had a great time along with a couple hundred others at a big debate watch...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: Let's Help Elect GwenM Mayor of Novi!
This week I'd like to promote the campaign of our own GwenM, Gwen Markham, for mayor of Novi, MI. Gwen has been a Novi City Council member for the past four years, serving her community well and...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread
Colorado has 50,000+ readers of Daily Kos, per the Great Orange HQ. We have had several gatherings here in various areas of the state, sometimes it's to build Kossack Community, sometimes it's to...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread
This is the North Carolina Open Thread For Sunday, October 25th. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics a...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: The Water Debacle in SE MI; "Train to Win,"...
I assume most everyone reading this from MI knows just how horrible things have gotten in Flint for the past 18+ months, because of the malfeasance committed by the Emergency Manager in deciding to...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: Oops!
My apologies, folks!I dropped the ball. Or, at least, I appear to have done so. I've never been completely certain as to the order we're supposed to post these in; and I was under the impression my...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Saying Yes to Pollution
This is the North Carolina Open Thread For Sunday, November 1st. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: Elections; a Mixed Bag Locally
Now that you've had a bit of time to digest your own local election results from yesterday, let's look at Colorado's lower left corner's election results--a mixed bag for sure. Join me over the orange...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread
This is the North Carolina Open Thread For Sunday, November 8th.. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics...
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